MT5 Market Watch Window for MetaTrader 4 Symbols on MT5
The market watch window panel on MetaTrader 5 is used to display an array of Commodity Trading quotes for commodity. To access this display on the MT5 a trader should go to view menu as illustrated and shown below & select the Market Watch Window by Clicking on it. (The Ctrl+M is short cut for accessing this window as illustrated and shown below, by pressing this shortcut, you can enable market watch window without going to the "view" menu)
Market Watch Window
Once a trader selects the commodities trading market watch window, the following popup window will appear displaying a list of Commodity Trading symbols available for trading.
As a trader you may also want to trade an instrument that is not listed on this list. For example on the above list only 5 trading instruments are displayed. To get other symbols that aren't listed, you can right click inside this market watch window as illustrated and shown below & the following pop up will appear.
To show a list of other symbols, choose the "Show All" button, this will then show all available pairs.
To Save Internet Bandwidth, (Especially if you're using mobile trader, or pay per MB inter-net)
To save bandwidth select a list of all the trading instruments you will be trading, say example, ten pairs, after selecting these, then select & click "Hide All" button, this will hide all the pairs which you do not need to trade and will save you a great amount of internet bandwidth.
Even if you do not want to save band width, you can select option to "Hide All", this will save computer processor resources & RAM, especially for brokers that provide hundreds of MetaTrader 4 symbols and financial instruments, there's no need to have all these 100 or 200 financial instruments streaming on your trading platform after all you need only about 10 streaming quotes or a few financial instruments to trade. You can always "Show All">>> Choose a new pair by opening a commodities trading chart, >>> Then hide all, your newly selected ones will then be added on this minimized list.
Other Market Watch Options
Below is an explanation of each market watch window, Download MT5 and click the MT5 buttons below to get an illustration of the explanations made below.
Symbols Options - Symbols option can be used to also add or hide a MetaTrader 4 symbol. You can download MT5 and click quotes to see how you can add or remove trading financial instruments using This MT5 option.
Sets - A set of grouped trading instruments
High/Low - Displays the high & low of the day next to the quote
Time - Displays the current time of day next to the quote
Auto Arrange - Automatically arrange according to the chosen order
Grid - Add or Remove Grid on the Commodity Trading Price Quotes
Popup Commodity Trading Prices - Show commodity prices as a Pop Up Window within the MT5 Commodity Trading Platform.
